Monday, September 3, 2018

PAT BOONE'S 1 MOVIE LINE THAT TOPPED EVERYTHING 'I'll never get over it'

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Legendary entertainer Pat Boone, in an interview with WND, reflects on his acting career, his part in the launch of contemporary Christian music and his role in “God’s Not Dead 2,” which has been released in a box set of the entire three-film series.
WND: Not everybody realizes that in addition to being a music superstar, you were also an accomplished actor. How did you balance acting and singing?
Pat Boone: Well, I actually did acting and singing at the same time, so I don’t see it as separate things as much as all being a part of my career as an entertainer. And my career was never about me anyways, so movies were just another outlet through which I was able to use some God-given talents. I was as much amazed as anybody at the doors God opened for me!
WND: You are widely credited with being one of the founders of contemporary Christian music not only because you started a record label, Lamb & Lion Records, which released DeGarmo & Key’s first record, but you lent some money and strongly encouraged the early careers of people like Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill and other significant  performers. Why was that important to you?
Pat Boone: I was so excited to see the Jesus Movement happen in the late ’60s, early ’70s, and I wanted to be a part of it in whatever way I could. The expressions of faith at that time were so genuine, so real, that when I met these young men and women I supported them in every way I could. Sometimes it meant signing them to my label and at other times it meant helping them with what they needed. Larry and Randy came and sat in my backyard and told me what they wanted to do, and I wrote them a check for $5,000 on the spot!
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Scene from "God's Not Dead"
Scene from “God’s Not Dead”
WND: Before there was ever Pureflix or “God’s Not Dead,” or “The Passion” or “The Chronicles of Narnia” there was you starring in “The Cross & The Switchblade.” How did that come about?
Pat Boone: Yes I was. First, I saw a pocket book by that title on a news stand at the airport, while I was waiting to catch my plane to Mexico City for 10 days of performances. I was puzzled how they could mix those two words, “The Cross and the Switchblade.” I read the whole book on the way to Mexico City and was shaken by it. It described a minister named David Wilkerson experiencing miracles and supernatural things today – and I had been taught in my church background that were no longer possible. When I got back to L.A., I called David Wilkerson, who I hadn’t met, and convinced him that some Christians and I could make a worthy film of his story and help a lot of other young people which was his sole purpose in ministry. (I didn’t realize I was talking to someone who grew up thinking that going to the movies was a sin in itself). But I knew that as our society was getting more coarse and violent that this true story that could be substantiated in our day could make a difference and perhaps head a lot of other young people out of gangs and into more meaningful lives. It wasn’t meant to be an “overt Christian film,” but you couldn’t tell the story without demonstrating the changes in the lives of people who met Jesus and gave their lives to him. Of course, Erik Estrada played Nicky Cruz while I played David Wilkerson himself, and Erik will tell you, that that experience, knowing that we were telling something that was true and real, changed his life as well as mine. And I will say that the success of that film, independently produced and distributed, convinced a lot of people in the movie business that Christian entertainment could be marketed – if it was well done and real.
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WND: What was the most important takeaway you had from being involved with “The Cross and the Switchblade?”
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Pat Boone: I had some misgivings about playing a minister and telling the true story of Christian confrontation with gang violence and immorality seeping into other areas of American life – I thought it might end my movie career. To my amazement and delight, though, the film was successful, I know that countless lives were changed, the movie was translated into 15 foreign languages, including Farsi, because my portrayal of David Wilkerson in that movie was considered by the Iranians “an anti-drug film.” And though they weren’t averse to producing drugs to export them to other countries, they didn’t want their own children to be drug addicts. And that film, complete with its Christian message, played all other the Middle East, with large Arab attendance.
WND: So you went on to make other kinds of films, including family films and musicals, right?
Pat Boone: Yes – but I also experienced the most exciting moment of my whole career, and perhaps of my life. George Stevens, when he was casting “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” chose me, out of all of Hollywood, to play “the angel at the tomb,” when Mary came to the tomb to tend to the dead body of Jesus, she thought she heard the angel pronounce the most important words ever spoken, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not dead; he is risen just as he said!” I’m telling you – nothing I have done or ever will do in this life tops the honor I felt at being able to pronounce those words in that film, voicing that proclamation. I’ll never get over it.
WND: Now you were more recently involved in “God’s Not Dead 2,” which is now being released as a box set with all three in the series. How did your experience compare between one of the first Christian movies (“The Cross and the Switchblade”) and one of the most well-known Christian movies (“God’s Not Dead 2”)?
Pat Boone: Well in one of them I was the star and in the other I wasn’t. Seriously though, both movies were about a character who was persecuted for what he believed in and the impact of a film like that in a culture whose trademark is passivity. “God’s Not Dead” showcased young and old people who were willing to stand up for what they believed in no matter the cost. In popular culture, we are surrounded by people who are passive about what they believe or don’t believe anything. I believe that movies like “God’s Not Dead” will inspire people of this generation, especially the young who are looking for something to believe in and commit to, to not focus on worldly things but keep heaven as their eternal perspective. I’m so proud of David AR White and what the others accomplished and I was glad to be a part of the series. Here’s hoping and praying for more films like it – we need them!

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Congress faces September scramble on spending

   
Congress faces September scramble on spending
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Congress is facing a September scramble as it returns to Washington ahead of an end-of-the-month deadline to avoid a government shutdown. 
Lawmakers get back to the Capitol on Tuesday, giving them just a matter of weeks to clear spending legislation while also juggling other high-profile fights like the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 
Senators, who stayed in Washington instead of taking their usual August recess, have made quick work of their funding packages, passing nine out of the 12 individual appropriations bills. 
But lawmakers still need to get a deal on the three spending packages they have not cleared so far, a challenge that will require them to defuse partisan policy riders included in the House bills. 
GOP Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, acknowledged that while lawmakers and staffs have been talking throughout August, they haven’t “resolved anything.” He said they needed to meet face-to-face with returning House lawmakers.
“We need the House to get back where we can start talking to each other personally,” he said when asked about getting the bills conferenced by the deadline. “That’s our goal. We’ve got a month. If the House cooperates, we can work together.”
So far, the House and Senate have failed to sort out in conference any of the differences in their bills. The two chambers have not yet agreed upon final top line numbers for each of the 12 bills, which will be necessary before sending any of them to President Trump's desk.
Lawmakers will need to navigate a series of political landmines in the House bills, where Republicans inserted controversial, partisan provisions. 
In the Senate, an agreement between Shelby and appropriations Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to keep partisan “poison pills” and authorizing language out of the appropriations process held strong, allowing the upper chamber to push legislation ahead.
House Republicans, on the other hand, used their bills to take aim at ObamaCare and abortion with measures that are non-starters in the Senate where Democratic support is needed to fund the government. 
Senators pigeonholed an amendment from GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) that would have prevented D.C. from establishing its own individual mandate for health insurance. The House included a similar provision in their Financial Services bill, which funds the District. 
The upper chamber also rejected an amendment from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that would have stripped Planned Parenthood of federal funding in legislation funding the Department of Health and Human Services. The House included such a provision in its committee-passed HHS bill. 
GOP leaders in the two chambers are on the same page though when it comes to one issue. Both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) have indicated they want to punt on funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until after the midterm elections to avoid a potentially explosive fight over funding for President Trump's border wall.
But the contentious issue looms over the broader funding bill. Trump has threatened to veto spending legislation that doesn’t fund his signature policy. Democrats have held out the prospect of wall funding as part of a broader immigration deal, and are unlikely to lend their support without getting a significant concession in return.
In addition to border wall funding, a DHS bill would also act as a lightning rod for a larger fight over Trump’s other immigration policies. 
To circumvent the issue and avoid a politically risky shutdown just one month ahead of November’s election, lawmakers are separating DHS funding from spending for the rest of the government.
Both chambers are far apart though on their numbers. The Senate’s DHS bill includes $1.6 billion for border barriers, while the House bill includes $5 billion. 
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said a recent trip to the border underscored the need for a “wall system” and that lawmakers are now in “heavy talks” about how much money to include. 
“Right now, technically we have $1.6 billion in our bill. …[Trump’s] now asking for $5 billion this year,” Capito told a West Virginia radio station this week. “We’re trying to find the money, that’s not easy.” 
Beyond policy riders, disagreements remain over key questions such as whether to bypass agreed-upon spending caps in funding a veteran’s health program.
Even if Congress sends the nine bills to Trump’s desk, lawmakers will need a continuing resolution (CR) to fund those parts of the government addressed in the remaining bills past the end of September. The stopgap is likely to go into December but leadership hasn’t yet worked out the details of a short-term bill. 
“I’m sure we’ll have something like that but right now our goal is to pass a substantial number of the bills,” Shelby said, asked about the need for a short-term bill to fund part of the government until late December. 
Senators are hoping to limit the short-term bill to the three bills that the chamber has not yet taken up: Department of Homeland Security, Commerce, Science and Justice and a bill for State and Foreign Operations. 
But that package could swell if they are unable to get an agreement with the House on already passed legislation. 
"We won't get them all done, but I think it's realistic to get a number between five and nine over the finish line," said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), an appropriator. Others have privately floated that as few as three bills could get through.
Shelby said that senators were trying to avoid a larger CR, and that it boiled down to what sort of agreement they could get from the House. 
“If the House works with us expeditiously,” he said. “We will fund most of the government. If they don’t then we will reach an impasse.” 
Ryan, who is retiring at the end of the year, faces additional pressure from within his own ranks. Passing large spending bills with the support of Democrats is sure to rile House conservatives, who are already jockeying over who will lead their caucus in the next Congress. 
Trump has created another roadblock for Republicans. Earlier this year, amid backlash from his base, the president threatened to veto the omnibus legislation that combined all 12 spending bills for 2018 into one.  He told lawmakers he wouldn’t sign a similar piece of legislation again. 
McConnell put a premium on passing “minibus” packages, which roll a few bills into one piece of legislation, by devoting weeks of Senate floor time to getting the funding measures cleared in the chamber. Republicans are fighting for their political lives in November and are eager to show they can govern.
“This is about omnibus prevention, about actually demonstrating to the American people that we can do what we're supposed to do on time,” McConnell told reporters at a weekly leadership press conference. 
He added that the Senate has now passed legislation funding roughly 90 percent of the government and if they are able to conference their bills with the House before the end of September that could resonate with voters before the midterms. 
“I think it's an important step forward, and ought to reassure the American people that the Congress is in good hands, which we know that they'll have something to say about the first Tuesday in November,” he said. 
   
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